README FILE

This directory contains four files:

Readme.txt ... This file
Dataset.dta ... The dataset as a ".dta" file, Stata file format, created with Stata 17 BE
Dataset.csv ... The dataset as a ".csv" file, created with Stata 17 BE
Replication.do ... A Stata Do - File containing commands to run regressions for the results in the main text, created with Stata 17 BE


Here is a brief description of the variables in the replication files. See SI material for coding and further details.

gen ... Gender: takes value 1 for male, and value 2 for female
eth ... Ethnicity: takes value 1 for Arab, and value 0 for other
rel ... Religion: takes value 1 for Sunni, and value 0 for other

urb ... Urban: takes value 1 for rural, and value 2 for urban; item ask about the place respondents grew up

age ... Age, categories: "1" 24 or younger, "2" 25 - 34, "3" 35 - 44, "4" 45 - 54, "5" 55 - 64, "6" 65 - 74, "7" 75 - 84, "8" 85 or older 

ses ... Socioeconomic status prio to war, scale from 0 "worst off" to "best off"

edu ... Highest level of education that you have completed: "1" no formal education, "2" less than 6 years of schooling, "3" completed 6 years of schooling, "4" completed 9 years of schooling, "5" completed 12 years of schooling, "6" completed more than 12 years of schooling

lea_year ... Year leaving the respective country. Note, respondents before 2010 choices are 1994 or earlier, 1995-99, 2000-04, 2005-09. For this variable the last year is assigned in cases there is a year interval.

WTR_sunni ... Dummy variable for Sunni WTR targets

WTRgroup ... variable for WTR targets, "1" Sunni, "2" Shia, "3" Yazidi
id ... Identifier for respondent
adm1 ... Identifier for the governorate in Syria or Iraq


/Drought variables:
spei_12spam_dum ... Drought Sp12Sm (d)
spei_12spamHV_dum ... Drought Sp12SmHV (d)
growendspei_6crop_dum ... Drought GrSp6McRf (d)
spei_12_av ... Drought SPEI12 ave
Dum_spei_12_av ... Drought SPEI12 (d)
Dum_growendspei_6_av ... Drought growthend ave SPEI6 (d)
Dum_growendspei_6_min ... Drought growthend min SPEI6 (d)

